ATLANTA – A group of nearly 30 immigrants formerly detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today sent a letter to the White House, the Department of Homeland Security, and Georgia Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon...
ATLANTA, Ga. – Today, a federal judge heard an emergency motion in a case charging the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) with violating the constitutional rights of Ashley Diamond, a Black, transgender woman currently...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The new season of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (ÈËÊÞÐÔ½») original podcast — Sounds Like Hate — was released today. This season goes deeper into the dangers and peril of everyday people who engage in extremism...
GRAHAM, N.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center raised a new billboard in support of the North Carolina Commission on Racial & Ethnic Disparities (NC CRED), which supports groups like Alamance Alliance 4 Justice, the Alamance...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Southern Poverty Law Center’s Learning for ÈËÊÞÐÔ½» program curriculum and resources have recently sparked outrage and opposition from conservative groups, like the Heritage Foundation, who want educators to...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (ÈËÊÞÐÔ½») released the results of a national poll of 1000 representative voters in the United States, conducted by Tulchin Research , finding widespread support for...
PASCO COUNTY, Fla. - The PASCO Coalition issued the following statement today after the Pasco County School Board and Sheriff’s Office announced changes to its predictive policing program without community input during a school...
PASCO COUNTY, Fla. – The People Against the Surveillance of Children and Over-policing (PASCO) Coalition sent an 12-page letter today urging the Pasco County School District to immediately end all student data-sharing agreements...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The new season of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (ÈËÊÞÐÔ½») original podcast — Sounds Like Hate — kicks off next week with the first episode featuring stories of two young people and their paths to...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – In commemoration of International Workers’ Day, or May Day, Southern Poverty Law Center President and CEO Margaret Huang released the following statement. “As we celebrate the achievements of workers and their...
Montgomery, Ala. – A new analysis published by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (ÈËÊÞÐÔ½») Hatewatch highlights the effort by white supremacists, far-right extremists and other pundits to spread racist conspiracy theories during and...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following President Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Project and Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative released the following statements. On...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (ÈËÊÞÐÔ½») announced Vote Your Voice grants to 55 civic groups and voter outreach organizations across the Deep South totaling $11,285,000. Earlier rounds of Vote Your Voice...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center launched its 2021 Confederate Billboard campaign in Florence, Alabama. In 2017, local advocacy group Project Say Something initially appealed for contextualization of the...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Stone Mountain Memorial Association held its first meeting under the new leadership of Rev. Abraham Mosley, the first African American to lead the state’s authority in its 60-year history, to discuss future...
PASCO COUNTY, Fla. – Today, 30 local, state-based, and national organizations announced the formation of the PASCO Coalition, People Against the Surveillance of Children and Overpolicing, to call on the Pasco County School...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Civil rights attorneys today submitted a pair of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to the federal government seeking information on the government’s use of force, including the use of pepper spray, to...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The following statement is from ÈËÊÞÐÔ½» Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks: “Since Reconstruction, Confederate symbols have been used by white supremacists as tools of racial terror. The United Daughters of the...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Scott McCoy, ÈËÊÞÐÔ½» Action Fund interim deputy legal director, ÈËÊÞÐÔ½» Rights & Special Litigation, released the statement below observing Day of Silence on Friday, April 23: “The overt discrimination that gay...
MACON, Ga. – In response to the Statement of Interest that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed late this afternoon in Ashley Diamond’s lawsuit, Diamond v. Ward , against officials within the Georgia Department of...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this week announced an additional 22,000 H-2B visas will be made available to employers this fiscal year. The following statement is from Meredith Stewart, a senior...
MONTGOMERY, Ala . – The Civil Rights Memorial Center (CRMC), in partnership with New York Times best-selling author Kwame Alexander, released a national community-led poem today following the guilty verdict in the murder trial of...
MINNEAPOLIS -- Earlier today a jury convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd. Chauvin, who is white, was charged with second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree...
NEW ORLEANS -- The Southern Poverty Law Center (ÈËÊÞÐÔ½») has filed suit against the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s office (JPSO) and will be asking a judge to compel Sheriff Joseph Lopinto to respond to a public records request the...
DUVAL COUNTY, Fla. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (ÈËÊÞÐÔ½») and private employment law firm Scott • Wagner and Associates, P.A ., sued Duval County Public Schools (DCPS) on behalf of a teacher at Robert E. Lee High School...